wb9999
I think you are still missing the point.
The CAA cant extend the privileges of the IMCr outside the UK because the IMCr is not an ICAO rating in the way a CAA IR is / was. Based on the FAA IR it is possible it could have been filed as such, with the relevant dispensation, but in reality even if they had wanted to, the dispensations required would have been a step so far. Most "national" ICAO IRs dont meet the ICAO requirements and that is why most national authorities have filed dispensations where their IR falls short of the ICAO standard.
That is why the ANO makes clear that the IMCr lifts certain restrictions in UK airspace.
Equally that is not to say the ANO prohibits those restrictions being lifted in a G reg aircraft outside the UK BUT it is for the relevant authority to recognise the rating as having the same or any other effect in their airspace which if they wish to do so renders the pilot entitled to exercise those privileges without contravening the ANO.
I think this is relevant because potentially it gives other EASA signatories the entitlement to render the IMCr (or in fact the IRR as it will become) valid in other EASA airspace. Who knows the IMc may yet be more widely adopted if the EIR is found wanting!
Why do you think LASORS is so clear in this regard? If you have the consent of another authority, and given what LASORS has to say on the matter, do you honestly think the CAA would prosecute? Even if you do, you are not reading the ANO correctly - you think it says the privileges may NOT be excercised outside UK airspace when in fact it says they may be excercised within UK airspace, quite a different matter from they may ONLY be excercised in the UK which the legislation might have said - but doesn't.
As to whether it is the French that are reluctant to recognise national ratings I think this is debatable. They have always had an issue with their Brevet de Base and of course have their own sub ICAO IR. Moreover the IRR seems to rather dodge the concept of national ratings, rather it is an EASA rating with certain restrictions which happen to be territorial (at the moment).
Of course as we all know the whole issue is a complete mess not helped by
the utter lack of understanding of those involved with building a "better" or more comprehensive system.
Last edited by Fuji Abound; 4th July 2013 at 19:15.